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Archival photo of Gund Hall from Quincy Street with cars parked out front and students walking a bicycle across the street.

Moshe Safdie Remembers John Andrews (1933–2022)

John Andrews (center) with Landscape Architect Michael Hough (left) and Architect and Urban Planner…

Apr 7, 2022

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Buy-One-Give-One Bottled Water Start-up is First of its Kind

Henrik Ilvesmäki (MArch II ’20/ MDes ’22) serves as Chief Creative Officer of GIVE…

Apr 4, 2022

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Shaping Contemporary Indigenous Design: An interview with Sam Olbekson

Sam Olbekson is committed to improving the lives of Native Americans. An Indigenous architect with…

Mar 28, 2022

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“From Virtual by Emergency to Virtual by Design,” the 2020–2021 Irving Innovation Fellows Advance Virtual Pedagogy

Each year, the Irving Innovation Fellowship enables recent Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni…

Mar 21, 2022

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Sunghea Khil Receives Travel and Research Grant from the American Planning Association

Sunghea Khil, a joint degree Master in Urban Planning and Public Policy candidate at…

Mar 15, 2022

Department of Landscape Architecture Announces 2022 Penny White Project Fund Recipients

The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Landscape Architecture has announced the 2022…

Mar 11, 2022

New book from REAL considers Responsive Environments through a design manifesto

A new book from the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Responsive Environments…

Mar 5, 2022

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Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Glass Building Facades

Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…

Mar 1, 2022

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Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…

Mar 1, 2022

Collage featuring a map of Chicago with a masked Black person holding a stick over a larger than life drawing of cotton.

Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “South Side Land Narratives: The Lost Histories and Hidden Joys of Black Chicago” by Toni L. Griffin

Publicly expressing Black pain can render reactions of solidarity, healing, and empowerment, or exhaustion, guilt,…

Feb 22, 2022